PhD student Gerardo Betancourt explores how an HIV program for Spanish-speaking communities is applying lessons learned to help communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Categories: StudentsA new article, by FIFSW PhD Candidate, Gerardo Betancourt, explores how the organization Community Without Borders has applied what it learned from the HIV pandemic to protect Spanish-speaking communities from COVID-19.
The piece, entitled “Code blue! Implementing a COVID-19 emergency response, supported by an HIV community program: Communities without borders, a Spanish-Speaking intervention in Toronto, Canada” was published in the Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services.
As Betancourt writes, “The article argues that is precise because we have learned as marginalized communities that reacted at the beginning of the AIDS early days, that HIV/AIDS educators adapted very fast interventions, programs, and counselling to alleviate societal effect pandemic against COVID-19 new infections.”